Mental Illness We Are Suffering From Social Famine
Ruth Bettelheim, PhD :What happens when whole populations are subjected to social isolation? We have all been participants in that cruel natural experiment, and one...
Editorial
Busting The Myths Food Stamps, Welfare & Work
Karin Schelzig :Government assistance to the poor-especially cash and similar benefits-has always sparked heated debates. Who deserves support? How much support, and for how long?...
70pc women victims of cybercrime
Rights campaigner Ain o Salish Kendra found that more than 500 incidents of cybercrime, 70 per cent of them, women, were recorded in 2021. Lack...
Truckers’ protest in Canada and the role of government
Tension is running high among the residents of Ottawa when police have apparently failed to cool down the trucker-led anti-vaccine mandate protest even after 15...
Digital Injustices Don’t Let Young People Pay The Price
Illan Acher & Marwa Azelmat :If, like us, you are young today, then you are part of the largest global youth population that ever existed....
Modern-day Slavery Power Of Connection & Collaborations To Fight
Sania Farooqui :The Covid-19 pandemic affected countries and people globally, at the same time exacerbated vulnerabilities such as modern-day slavery. There are over 40.3 million...
People can’t be treated as slave only to pay higher tariff
MEDIA report said Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has placed a proposal to hike water tariffs by 20 per cent again while it...
Tragic death of 5 brothers in C’Bazar road crash
FIVE brothers were killed when a pickup truck ran over them on Tuesday morning. The victims were returning from a crematorium after performing the funeral...
Where will low-income patients go for kidney treatment?
The tragic condition of treatment facilities in government and private hospitals in Bangladesh is revealed in different print and electronic media almost every day. Study...
Without business confidence economic growth has to be fake
A government report on Tuesday said Bangladesh achieved 6.94 percent GDP growth in the 2020-21 fiscal year amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “The country’s GDP size...
Unplanned Urbanization Dhaka Lacks Sustainable Housing
Md. Zillur Rahaman :Planned urban management is not keeping pace with the growing urbanization and rapid urbanization in the whole country including the capital Dhaka....
Fighting Pandemic Law Relating To Public Health Needed
M. Kamruzzaman Shadhin :The Article, 18(1), 18A and 32 of the Constitution of Bangladesh expressed about the health rights of citizens and protection of wildlife...